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S. S.- BENT. Combined Register and Summer Piece.

Patented Jan. 3,1865.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL S. BENT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COMBINED REGISTER AND SUMMER-PIECE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 45,688, dated January3,1865.

To all trhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL S. BENT, of the city and State ofNew York,have invented, made, and applied to use a certain new and usefulImprovement in Registers for Warming and Ventilating; and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of mysaid invention, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making partof this specification, wherein Figure l is a back elevation of myregister, and Fig. 2 is a section of the same.

Similar marks of reference denote the same parts.

Registers for ventilation and for hot air have heretofore been made ofcircular plates with openings through them, the one plate fitted to turnon the other and open or close the passage for air. In cases where thehot air has passed through the opening usually provided for a grate orfire-place the said opening has been filled by an ornamental grating,with turning valves or registers behind that grating.

In the manufacture of grates it is usual to provide an ornamentalsummenpiece to set into the fireplace when the grate itself is removed.

The nature of my said invention consists in providing this ornamentalsummer-piece with amovable plate or plates at the back, whereby saidsummer-piece becomes a register to regulate the temperature in winter orthe ventilation through the chimneys in summer.

In the drawings, a represents the plate known as the summer-piece forgrate-frames to take the place of the grate itself. b is the circularopen ornamental part usually formed in such summer-pieces. c is aregister-plate behind this portion, fitted in any usual manner to openand close the air-passages through I). I have shown said plate 0 asfitted to be turned by a button, e, applied at its center and extendingthrough the center of b. d is the portion of the summer-piece a below bthat is usually provided with openings running in a vertical direction.The register-platesff are shown as sliding on the cross-bar or support gand provided with knobs i on the fronts of the summer-piece,'by whichthey are moved in covering or uncovering the openings in d.

It will be evident that this combined register and summer-piece forgrate frames is a new and useful article. Where the chimney is prot'idedwith hot-air pipes the summerpicce takes the place of expensiveregisters placed behind an ornamental plate and separately made andactuated; and in cases where this summerpiece is introduced in anordinary chimney the ventilation through the same can be regulated atpleasure by the registers.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combined register and summer-piece for grate-frames, constructedsubstantially as specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my signature this 1st day ofOctober, 1864.

SAMUEL S. BENT. Witnesses:

LEMUEL W. SERRELL, CHAS. E. SMITH.

